Sir John Hay, 6th Baronet
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Sir John Hay, 6th Baronet of Smithfield and Haystoun FRSE FSA (3 August 1788 – 1 November 1838) was a British baronet and politician. He sat as a Member of Parliament for Peeblesshire from 1831 to 1837.
He was the son of Sir John Hay, 5th Baronet of Smithfield and Haystoun FRSE (1755-1830), banker and landowner, and Mary Elizabeth Forbes. His brother-in-law was the banker, George Forbes FRSE (1790-1857).
He trained as an advocate and passed the Scottish bar in 1811.
In 1820 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being George Forbes.[1]
In 1821 he married Ann Preston (d.1862). They had no children.[2]
References
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
- ^ http://thepeerage.com/p66720.htm
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